Something has quietly shifted for Hot Mulligan. The Michigan five-piece have spent the better part of a decade building one of the most devoted fanbases in modern emo, song by song and tour by tour; the kind of slow-burn ascent that tends to produce rooms that feel less like gigs and more like reunions. ‘The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still’ feels like the moment the rest of the world caught up, a record that arrived fully formed and immediately indispensable and, tonight, the Roundhouse is sold out on a Thursday in March, which is its own kind of statement. There’s a particular breed of Hot Mulligan fans in this building, the kind who can recite the lyrics to songs with titles that read like deleted tweets and feel every word of them as gospel, and there are 3,000 of them here tonight.
Delta Sleep arrive first and waste no time making a case for themselves. The Brighton math-rockers bring a kind of unhurried technical confidence that makes every track feel crowded and cascading...
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